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You can make detailed notes on parts or all of your Microsoft Word documents with Evernote. You may want to do this to highlight paragraphs that need a bit more work, or make a catalog of all the images that you are using in your document. With Evernote's built-in word processor, you can even make different versions of the same passages, and then re-incorporate the best of them with your Word document.

Pasting From Word

You can paste text and images from your Word documents directly into Evernote. To do so, highlight the content that you want to send to Evernote and then press "Ctrl" and "C" at the same time. Click the Evernote icon in your task bar to bring the program into focus, click the note that you would like to add the content to and then click "Ctrl," "Alt" and "V" at the same time to paste it in. You may find this useful in creating notes that contain the highlights of your document, all of its images or a combination of the two.

Sending a Screenshot from Word

You can also send a screenshot of your Word document to Evernote. With your Word document open, click the "Show hidden icons" arrow in the right-hand side of the task manager, right-click the Evernote icon and then click "Clip Screenshot." Once you have done this, a gray box will appear over your screen. Simply click the arrow on its right-hand side and drag it over the content that you want to capture. This procedure creates a new note in the active notebook.

Clipping From Word

Another way that you can take information from your document and turn it into a new note in Evernote is to clip from Word. To do this, highlight the content that you want to send to Evernote, including any images, and then press the Windows button and the "A" button at the same time. You can find the Windows button between "Alt" and "Ctrl" on the left-hand side of the keyboard. When you do this, a new Evernote window will appear. In this window, you can preview your new note and give it a name.

Rapid Searching from Windows

You can also quickly search your Evernote notebooks for text that is in your Word document. You may find this helpful if you are unsure of whether or not you have made a note for a particular passage or not. To do this, highlight and copy the text from your Word document, right-click the Evernote icon located in the system tray, and then click "Find in Evernote." The Evernote client will open to full size, and you will be able to see the results, if any, within a few seconds.

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